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* Querying dependencies
@ 2023-05-22 18:01 Wells Oliver <wells.oliver@gmail.com>
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From: Wells Oliver @ 2023-05-22 18:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Sometimes I'll "drop table .." on a replica just to see the list of
dependencies,.. This is quite dumb. What's the simple query I can run to
get the same detail without the idiocy?
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Wells Oliver
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* Re: Querying dependencies
@ 2023-05-22 18:11 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
parent: Wells Oliver <wells.oliver@gmail.com>
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From: Tom Lane @ 2023-05-22 18:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Wells Oliver <wells.oliver@gmail.com>; +Cc: pgsql-admin
Wells Oliver <wells.oliver@gmail.com> writes:
> Sometimes I'll "drop table .." on a replica just to see the list of
> dependencies,.. This is quite dumb. What's the simple query I can run to
> get the same detail without the idiocy?
Not sure about "simple", but here's an example of looking at the
catalog data for this:
regression=# create table mytable(a int primary key, b text unique);
CREATE TABLE
regression=# create table othertable (a int references mytable);
CREATE TABLE
regression=# select pg_describe_object(classid,objid,objsubid), deptype from pg_depend where refclassid = 'pg_class'::regclass and refobjid = 'mytable'::regclass;
pg_describe_object | deptype
--------------------------------------------------+---------
type mytable | i
toast table pg_toast.pg_toast_40635 | i
constraint mytable_pkey on table mytable | a
constraint othertable_a_fkey on table othertable | n
constraint mytable_b_key on table mytable | a
(5 rows)
See https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/catalog-pg-depend.html
In the general case you'd need to worry about indirect
dependencies, so you'd need to embed this in a recursive
CTE. But tables don't usually have indirect dependencies.
regards, tom lane
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